Archive for: August, 2010

Environmental Groups Support U.S. EPA in Texas Air Permit Case
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, August 30, 2010 (ENS) – Two environmental groups Friday filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General...

Hurricane Earl Batters Caribbean Islands, Heads for U.S. East Coast
MIAMI, Florida, August 31, 2010 (ENS) – A major storm blowing across the northeastern Caribbean Sea has strengthened to a Category Four hurricane, generating...

Dormant Indonesian Volcano Awakens With a Fiery Roar
JAKARTA, Indonesia, August 30, 2010 (ENS) – Some 12,000 people fled the slopes of Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung Sunday as the long-dormant volcano on the island...

HUNCHUN, China, August 31, 2010 (ENS) – China’s Jilin province and the neighboring Primorsky province in Russia have agreed to jointly establish the world’s first transboundary protected area for the endangered Amur...

Stormy Weather Again Delays Operations at BP Well Site
HOUSTON, Texas, August 30, 2010 (ENS) – Locally turbulent weather at the BP/Deepwater Horizon well site has put on hold operations to bring up equipment that will become...

Measuring Progress Five Years After Hurricane Katrina
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, August 28, 2010 (ENS) – On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history, President Barack Obama,...

Charged With Enthusiasm, Seattle Gears Up for Electric Cars
By Sunny Lewis
SEATTLE, Washington, August 27, 2010 (ENS) – Seattle is preparing for an electric car roll-out that could amount to 200,000 electric vehicles...

Investigators Converge on Site of Alabama Ammonia Leak
MOBILE, Alabama, August 27, 2010 (ENS) – A release of of toxic anhydrous ammonia from a refrigeration plant in Theodore, Alabama that sent more than 130 people to hospital...

California Coastal Waters to Be Free of Large Ship Sewage
SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 26, 2010 (ENS) – All sewage discharges from large cruise ships and cargo ships to the marine waters along California’s entire...

Atrazine Threat to Male Sexual Development Revealed
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, August 25, 2010 (ENS) – Male rats exposed before birth to low doses of the weedkiller atrazine are more likely to develop prostate...

New Online Tool Monitors Endangered Species Trading
GENEVA, Switzerland, August 25, 2010 (ENS) – A new interactive tool that enables users to view trade data about wildlife and plants in 175 countries is now offered online...

Recovery Act Funds Electric Car Batteries, Renewable Energy, Genome Scans
WASHINGTON, DC, August 24, 2010 (ENS) – The United States is now on track to slash the cost of electric vehicle batteries, halve the cost of solar...

Southern California Warned to Prepare Now for Major Earthquake
IRVINE, California, August 24, 2010 (ENS) – A major earthquake on the San Andreas fault northwest of Los Angeles is likely to happen “soon” warn scientists...

SeaWorld Orlando Fined $75,000 After Whale Trainer’s Death
ORLANDO, Florida, August 24, 2010 (ENS) – SeaWorld Orlando was fined $75,000 Monday by the federal government for three safety violations one of which resulted...

Protest Ship in the Arctic; Superglue, Chains and Oil at the Bank
EDINBURGH, Scotland, August 23, 2010 (ENS) – Today’s actions by campaigners against fossil fuels and their investors saw a Greenpeace ship protesting...

Norway Dumps Its Samling Global Stocks Over Illegal Logging
OSLO, Norway, August 23, 2010 (ENS) – Discovery of widespread illegal logging in Malaysia and Guyana has caused one of the world’s largest institutional investors...